Castro and ‘Ernesto’

“When the Hispanic ‘Ernesto’ pushed over eastern Cuba earlier this week, the great mobiliser was himself immobilised. A Reuters report out of Havana said that for the first time in four decades, Cubans had to handle a hurricane on their own without Papa Fidel personally leading preparation and recovery efforts.

After the 1963 Hurricane Flora smashed into Cuba killing several thousand four years after Fidel Castro came to power, El Commandante was always on spot to take personal charge directing civil defence efforts for preparation and recovery. Ernesto caught him off his feet, old, sick and immobilised.”

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